Branford Marsalis Quotes
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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I really value my anonymity and privacy.
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I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.
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The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.